&D-cooperations. The results of a microeconometric analysis, based on firm data on innovation, let in general presume that with intensified … competition also the influence of spillovers on R&D-cooperation increases. However, competition seems to induce firms to search … spillover effects may even hinder firms from cooperating in R&D when there is intensive competition on the research stage …

&D-cooperations. The results of a microeconometric analysis, based on firm data on innovation, let in general presume that with intensified … competition also the influence of spillovers on R&D-cooperation increases. However, competition seems to induce firms to search … spillover effects may even hinder firms from cooperating in R&D when there is intensive competition on the research stage. …

when firms face greater competition, which will be the case if products become closer substitutes, a monopolist begins to … face competition from a rival firm, or firms compete on price rather than quantity. R&D cooperation allows firms to …

German automobile industry. The data set contains firms from all size classes and measures of innovation input as well as … innovation output. It can be shown that a) innovation and R&D-employment intensity will decline (increase) in buyer concentration … if supplier markets are low (high) concentrated, b) buyers' pressure on input prices reduces suppliers' innovation …

We specify and estimate a dynamic game to study the equilibrium relationship between market structure and innovation in … as stochastically increasing in innovation, the dynamic control, which is proxied by patent applications. Equilibrium … innovation is a function of market structure, the vector of quality levels of all active firms, and the cost of R&D. Our main …

The question that how market structure and innovation are related has been extensively studied in the literature … the relationship between market structure and innovation in the global automobile industry for the 1980-2005 period. We … industry level. Our findings are the following. (1) The effect of market structure on innovation in the global auto industry …

firm is willing to pay or a process innovation that it would be the only one to use. We show that different measures of … competition (number of firms, degree of product differentiation, Cournot vs Bertrand) affect incentives to innovate in non …

study the equilibrium relationship between market structure and innovation. The key state variable in the model is the …. Efficiency is estimated to be stochastically increasing in the dynamic control-innovation-which is proxied by patenting behavior …. Equilibrium innovation is a function of all state variables in the industry and the cost of R&D which includes a privately …

This Paper examines the effect of price competition on innovation, market structure and profitability in R …&D-intensive industries. The theoretical predictions are tested using UK data on the evolution of competition, concentration, innovation …